Atopia is a

production company A production company, production house or production studio is a studio that creates works in the fields of performing arts, new media art, film, television show, television, radio, comics, interactive arts, video games, websites, music, and video ...

and

film distributor A film distributor is a person responsible for the marketing of a film. The distribution company may be the same as, or different from, the production company. Distribution deals are an important part of financing a film. The distributor may set ...

based in

Montreal Montreal is the List of towns in Quebec, largest city in the Provinces and territories of Canada, province of Quebec, the List of the largest municipalities in Canada by population, second-largest in Canada, and the List of North American cit ...

Quebec Quebec is Canada's List of Canadian provinces and territories by area, largest province by area. Located in Central Canada, the province shares borders with the provinces of Ontario to the west, Newfoundland and Labrador to the northeast, ...

, Canada. The company was founded in 2000 by

Pascal Maeder Pascal Maeder is a Swiss-Canadian film producer and cyberneticist. In 2020, he launched ''x-ode'', an XR messaging app enabling its users to connect with one another based on shared experiences in the real world. The app was developed by Urbanoi ...

. During the following decade, the company produced and released a string of critically acclaimed and award-winning feature films including Daniel Cross' '' S.P.I.T.: Squeegee Punks in Traffic'', Federico Hidalgo's '' A Silent Love'', Simon Sauve's '' Jimmywork'', Noel Mitrani's '' Sur la trace d'Igor Rizzi'', Laura Bari's ''

Antoine Antoine is a French language, French given name (from the Latin ''Antonius'' meaning 'highly praise-worthy') that is a variant of Danton (name), Danton, Titouan, D'Anton and Antonin. The name is most common in France, Switzerland, Belgium, Canada ...

Jephté Bastien Jephté Bastien is a Canadians, Canadian film director. His debut film, ''Sortie 67'', won the Claude Jutra Award for best feature film by a first-time film director at the 31st Genie Awards in 2011. Born in Haiti, Bastien is based in Montreal.

's ''

Sortie 67 A sortie (from the French word meaning ''exit'' or from Latin root ''surgere'' meaning to "rise up") is a deployment or dispatch of one military unit, be it an aircraft, ship, or troops, from a strongpoint. The term originated in siege warfar ...

'' as well as

André Forcier André Forcier (born Marc-André Forcier on July 19, 1947) is a Canadian film director and screenwriter. His work has been linked to Latin American magic realism by its use of fantasy but is firmly rooted in Quebec's reality. His unromanticized, ...

's ''

Je me souviens () is the official motto of Quebec, and translated literally into English means: "I remember." The exact meaning of this short sentence is subject to several interpretations, though all relate to the History of Quebec, history of the Quebec peo ...

''. Initially launched as an online film studio with the development of 39 episodic web films in 2001, Atopia became the first Canadian distributor to release its feature films online through early platforms such as

Jaman Jaman was a company that offered users a movie discovery site, allowing them to browse viewing options offered across the internet. In its previous iteration, Jaman was one of the first sites to offer views on demand of media on the internet. It ...

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* Film production companies of Canada Companies based in Montreal Film distributors of Canada Entertainment companies established in 2000 {{film-company-stub